Fresh trouble was brewing in the Balkans this week, inside Kosovo and on its border with Macedonia. The troublemakers in both cases: ethnic-Albanian guerrillas. The flashpoint this week was Tanusevci, a Macedonian mountain village near the border with Kosovo. It had been seized earlier by armed ethnic-Albanian gunmen from across the border. At first, President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia, on nato's advice, reacted with un-Balkan restraint, though appealing for western assistance. That changed, though, when three Macedonian soldiers were killed on March 4th, two when their vehicle hit a landmine, a third by a sniper's bullet.
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